My 18 Y0 son…the one that scored 25 on the ACT…a smart beautiful kid ( in my eyes anyway) came home tonight with a fucking big ass tattoo on his upper arm. I am just freakin crushed. Maybe I am making too big a deal outa of it. But I just can’t help feeling like shit about it. De fucking pressed. At least it can’t be seen when he wears a shirt.
I don’t know about tattoo’s anymore, but when I was a kid they just screamed "hey I’m a drunken sailor and I got this tattoo!! Or “hey I am not man enough so I got this friggin tattoo to show how tough I am.”
I told him that sometimes there are stigmas attached to tattoos by the public along with all the other things I didn’t like about it, but hell it was a moot point. The tatoo is there permanent. Shit shit.
Do I just have an old timey attitude about it? Is there something about the new generation that I don’t understand?? Is it not that big of a deal anymore to have a tattoo? I remember Lee Trevino wore a bandaid over his for many years when playing golf on TV until he got the money to have it removed. How much does it cost to have one removed??? Shit fire…I don’t mean to trivialize my disappointment about it by posting it here but I sure would like some other people’s thoughts about it. I don’t think I am too good to have a tattoo, they just haven’t been my families thing for the last few generations…Damnation…
Yours truly,
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